World’s Tiger range countries agree on greater enforcement cooperation to save beleaguered species

Police and Customs heads from 13 Asian countries have agreed to tighten controls and improve cross-border cooperation to curb the illegal smuggling of Tigers and other critically endangered species. The accord came at the conclusion of the two-day international "Heads of Police and Customs Seminar on Tiger Crime"worskhop held in the second week of February 2012 in Bangkok, which brought together top Police and Customs Officers from countries that still have tigers living in the wild. Hosted by the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICC WC)and organised by INTERPOL in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)and the World Customs Organization (WCO)and with the technical and financial support from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat and the World Bank, the Tiger Seminar objective was for participants to agree on a robust set of law enforcement-based solutions to protect the species.

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